Leslie Ader

Université de Neuchâtel Neuchâtel, NE, Switzerland · Institut Forum suisse des migrations (SFM)

This article investigates the politicisation of immigration in Switzerland during two major socioeconomic crises: the oil crisis of the 1970s and the financial crisis of the late 2000s. Based on 2,853 newspaper claims from 1970 to 1976 and 1995 to 2018, we measure and compare differences in salience, polarisation, actor diversity and frame use betw...

Since 2014, the European Union (EU) has faced a large-scale influx of refugees/migrants from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Hungary, an EU member since 2004, has been particularly challenged by this movement. Over the past few years, under a Government led by the Fidesz party, it has become one of the leading Eurosceptic member-states, challeng...

Since January of 2014, President Putin’s annexation/invasion of the Crimean Peninsula has created a stir in international politics and a sovereignty crisis in Ukraine. At the same time, an identity crisis has involved the majority of all post-Soviet states with a large portion of the population being ethnic Russians or Russian speakers. In particul...

Migrants entering Western Europe have been heavily scrutinized by host states. In some cases, this has resulted in discrimination, which is not prohibited by international law. The case of people with disabilities is different. International treaties guarantee ‘fundamental rights’ for disabled people that ensure the application of principles provid...

The social relationship that devalues and freezes in an inferior otherness those people whose abilities do not conform to the standards produces a consensus on the help to be given to people considered as disabled. A second social relationship, based on territorial belonging, justifies unequal treatment of natives and people of foreign nationality....

Since 2014, the European Union (EU) has faced a large-scale influx of refugees/migrants from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Hungary, an EU member since 2004, has been particularly challenged by this movement. Over the past few years, under a Government led by the Fidesz party, it has become one of the leading Eurosceptic member-states, challeng...

Since 2014, European Union member and non-member states have faced a large-scale influx of refugees/migrants from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, resulting in a European-wide crisis. Hungary, a member of the European Union since 2004, has been particularly challenged by the EU’s philosophy of multicultural inclusivity. Over the last few years, H...

Since NATO’s intervention brought Kosovo's bloody war to a close, tensions almost erupted again in northern Kosovo, due to a show of nationalism from Serbia. In January 2017, a train from Belgrade bearing the slogan "Kosovo is Serbia," in 21 languages, inflamed nationalists on both sides of the border to the brink of conflict. But, what was so cont...

Since 2014, the European Union (EU) has faced a large-scale influx of refugees/migrants from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Hungary, an EU member since 2004, has been particularly challenged by this movement. Over the past few years, under a Government led by the Fidesz party, Hungary has become one of the leading Eurosceptic member-states, cha...

In March 2014, Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, under international law, illegally annexed the Crimea and caused an upset within Ukraine. Since November 2013, following Ukraine’s Russian-leaning former president’s decision not to back an associational agreement with the EU, and instead back Moscow, internal stability was further “shaken”. Ukrai...

Over the past two years, Europe has seen a massive wave of migrants and refugees pouring into Greece via Lampedusa, the famous “Balkan Route”, the Eastern Mediterranean, Spanish territories in Africa, or other less traveled routes. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) there have been an estimated 1,011,700 migrants to Eur...

The principle of self-determination (SD) continues to be a hotly debated norm in International Law. The international community has always been weary of SD claims, especially because devolution in federal systems that provided legal pathways to independence for former colonies during the de-colonialization period. It was the geopolitical climate of...

Since 2014, there has been an “active proxy war” in Donetsk and Luhansk, despite the Minsk I-III ceasefire agreements, thus placing Poroshenko’s government under pressure to give autonomous rights and pacify Ukraine to overcome Russian aggression. In May 2015, Poroshenko’s government had “unilaterally” without public debate passed and implemented a...

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is one of the most complex deeply rooted conflicts in history and has seen 65 years of sporadic wars since the Declaration of the State of Israel in 1948 resulting in several wars: the Suez War in 1956, Six Day War in 1967, Yom Kippur War in 1973, the First intifada 1987-1993 and the Second Intifada in 2000-2005. Th...

During the past four years Russian President Vladimir Putin and his administration have clearly displayed their blatant disregard for international law, human rights, minority rights and the core values that the democratic societies hold dear. Recent history has shown his government’s complicity in the murders of human rights advocates like Anna Po...

In recent years the Northern Caucasus region has been fairly stable. During the 1990s to the mid-2000s, a series of wars ravaged this small, but important area between the Russian Federation, the Republic of Armenia, Republic of Georgia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan. However, the violence in this small remote region has not ceased, and instead ha...

When deeply divided societies that have experienced or are experiencing periods of war and mistrust between different ethnic groups, it is expected that a nation-state will experience a new dilemma in the practice of state building. The main challenge for state builders in such societies like Cyprus, Palestine, and the seven republics of what was o...

The Camp David Accords was a group agreement between President Al- Anwar Sadat of Egypt, Prime Minster Menachem of Israel, and it was overseen by President Jimmy Carter of the United States of America. This agreement was an attempt to restore peace in the Middle East and arrest or slow deep rooted Palestinian-Israeli violence that had erupted again...

This paper will discuss and analyze the possible future of human rights and public health in Syria by comparing it to the Chechen case. It will illustrate the similarities between the two case studies in relation to the following. Government complicity in violating human rights and belligerent party violations of international humanitarian (attacki...